Folk tale and tale-telling tradition is considered an important field for Turkish folk literatüre, Turkish folklore and Turkish culture. Folk tales, which are the literary genres that children encounter for the first time with lullabies, are texts that mention fantastic people and events, usually take place in imaginary time and place, contain cultural data belonging to the society, educate and teach while entertaining at the same time. Folk tales, which have an important contribution in raising the individual in line with the expectations of the society, are at the forefront of the literary texts that provide value education to children from an early age. Folk tales, whose primary consumers are children, are also the scene of the struggle between good and evil, right and wrong. The effort of the good against the evil, the right against the wrong, usually ends with the victory of good and right at the end of the texts. Those who commit crimes and do evil are punished in line with the perception of justice in the folk tale. The relationship between the law and the judge, which exists in today’s legal system, has formed the justice system in itself by taking the form of “necessities of the genre (law)-narrator (judge)” in the folk tale world. The heroes who do evil or commit crimes in folk tales are punished in accordance with the personality traits, character and decision of the narrator within the general rules of the genre. Jealousy was one of the crimes that were determined in Anatolian folk tales and punished with death in the vast majority of these tales. Jealousy is not seen as an element of crime when evaluated in real life, but it is the main reason for many crimes committed in folk tales. In folk tales, “abnormal jealousy” is often encountered. In this type of jealousy, the individual becomes obsessed with what s/he fears losing. This leads to undesirable behaviors such as extremism, violence, aggression and leads the hero to crime. The hero, who exhibits behaviors that are not approved in terms of folk tale morality, is also punished according to the folk tale justice system. Penalties for similar crimes vary greatly from tale to tale. The personality traits of the narrator play a role in the variety of punishments in the determined co-texts (variants).

Anatolian Folk tales, jealousy, crime, penalty.